Every time Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market comes up in discussion, I typically feel that I have a good understanding of what kind of conversation will follow after. In today’s class however, my group focused on the contemporary renditions of the poem, which led my research to Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon’s theatre adaptation of the same name, Goblin Market. The most impactful thing I realized about theatre in my research is that the interpretation of a production is highly dependent on the time and place of the performance. Pen and Harmon’s production for example, opened 1985 off-Broadway in New York City during the height of the AIDs pandemic. Pen described the ideology of the play through a contemporary lens, bringing forward a modern perspective on the context of Rossetti’s original poem. Her quote in an interview talking about the “terror of a disease that kills people […] for loving one another”, resonated with me and opened my mind to new interpretations of Goblin Market that I had originally overlooked. I think that with the exaggerated emphasis on most works of Victorian literature, Goblin Market had begun to feel like another one of those overrated texts. Today’s class really helped to open my mind and capture my attention, not only because of the detailed work that curating entails, but because I found a way to relate to Goblin Market that was new and intriguing when I didn’t think it could be possible.